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CVE-2005-0667

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-03-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Sylpheed before 1.0.3 and other versions before 1.9.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an e-mail message with certain headers containing non-ASCII characters that are not properly handled when the user replies to the message.

Affected products

• Altlinux Alt Linux: 2.3
• gentoo Linux: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1
• RedHat Fedora Core: core_3.0
• RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1
• Sylpheed: 0.8.11, 0.9.4, 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8 (+8)
• Sylpheed-Claws: 1.0.2

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/14491
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013376
• http://sylpheed.good-day.net/changelog-devel.html.en
• http://sylpheed.good-day.net/changelog.html.en
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-26.xml
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-303.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14491
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013376
• http://sylpheed.good-day.net/changelog-devel.html.en
• http://sylpheed.good-day.net/changelog.html.en
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-26.xml
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-303.html

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